The following constraints must be met for successful use of the
MQ to Salesforce: Account Management pattern.
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You must have a salesforce account (this may be a developer account) and have a username,
password and the security token which you are sent whenever your password is changed.
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You should be familiar enough with the interface for salesforce.com
to check during testing that the operations on salesforce carried out by
a pattern instance have succeeded.
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This pattern performs "upserts" on Salesforce records
(that is a create if the record does not exist and an update if it does).
The pattern assumes that the Salesforce account and contact records have been modified to
hold an external key . These external fields must be defined in
your Salesforce records using the salesforce.com Setup API (see
Tasks to complete before applying the pattern)
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The applications to be integrated with Salesforce must be able to produce MQ
messages containing account and contact information. To use the message set which
comes with the pattern these messages should conform to the pattern format.
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The pattern defines its own format for the logging and error messages; it is
assumed that these messages are sufficient to meet the requirements in your own
environment.